HomeMy Public PortalAboutOrdinance 892ORDINANCE NO. 892
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE
CITY OF BEAUMONT, CALIFORNIA
ADDING CHAPTER 8.46 TO THE BEAUMONT MUNICIPAL CODE
ENTITLED "PROHIBITION ON THE INSTALLATION OF CERTAIN WATER
SOFTENING APPLICANCES"
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF BEAUMONT,
RIVERSIDE COUNTY, STATE OF CALIFORNIA AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1: Chapter 8.46, entitled "Prohibition on the Installation of Certain Water
Softening Appliances", is hereby added to the Beaumont Municipal Code to read as specifically
provided for in Exhibit "A", which Exhibit is attached hereto and made a part hereof.
Section 2: This Ordinance shall take effect as provided by law.
MOVED AND PASSED upon first reading this 7th day of February, 2006, by the
following roll call vote:
AYES: Mayor Fox, Council Members DeForge, Berg, Dressel, and Killough.
NOES: None .
ABSTAIN: None .
ABSENT: None .
MOVED, PASSED AND ADOPTED this 21st day of February, 2006, upon second
reading by the following roll call vote:
AYES: Mayor Fox, Council Members DeForge, Berg, Dressel, and Killough.
NOES: None .
ABSTAIN: None .
ABSENT: None .
ATTES'F:
Deputy City Cler
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CERTIFICATION
The foregoing is certified to be a true copy of Ordinance No. ?1 / duly introduced
at a regular meeting of the City Council of the City of Beaumont held on .5/ JI , 2006, and
was duly adopted upon a second reading on a) d) , 2006, by the roll call votes indicated
therein.
CITY OF BEAUMONT
By
(SEAL)
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CHAPTER 8.46
PROHIBITION ON THE INSTALLATION
OF CERTAIN WATER SOFTENING APPLICANCES
Sections:
Section 8.46.010 Purpose
Section 8.46.020 Definitions
Section 8.46.030 Findings
Section 8.46.040 Prohibition
Section 8.46.050 Violation
Section 8.46.060 Enforcement
Section 8.46.070 Severability
Section 8.46.010 Purpose
The purpose of this Ordinance is to protect the quality of the waters of the State
including, but not limited to, protecting the beneficial uses of the Beaumont Groundwater Basin,
which Basin provides most of the potable water drinking supply for the residents of the City of
Beaumont.
Section 8.46.020 Definitions
The following definitions shall apply to the terms used in this Ordinance:
A. "City" shall mean the City of Beaumont.
B. "Person" includes any person, firm, association, organization, partnership,
business, trust, corporation, company, district, county, town, the state, the federal government
and any of the agencies and political subdivisions of such entities.
C. "Regional Board" means the California Regional Water Quality Control Board,
Santa Ana Region, created and exercising its powers pursuant to the Porter -Cologne Water
Quality Control Act, California Water Code, Section 13000 et seq.
D. "Residence" means a structure which is or is intended to be, in whole or in part, a
place of dwelling, whether occupied or not, whether fully constructed or not, and includes
without limitation, homes, whether attached to another structure or not, apartments,
condominiums and mobile homes.
E. "Residential Self -Regenerating Water Softening Appliance" means a water
softening device located within or adjacent to a business or residence located within the City or
which discharges to a community sewer system that is tributary to the sewer system owned and
operated by the City, whereby the capability of the appliance to remove hardness from water is
renewed by the on-site application of a chloride salt -containing brine solution to the active
softening or conditioning material contained therein, followed by a subsequent rinsing of the
active softening or conditioning material.
Section 8.46.030 Findings
A. The State Legislature has found and declared that pollution prevention should be
the first step in a hierarchy for reducing pollution and managing wastes, and to achieve
environmental stewardship for society.
B. The Santa Ana River Basin Plan adopted by the Regional Board, and the waste
discharge requirements issued by the Regional Board to the City for the City's publicly -owned
wastewater treatment plant obligate the City to protect the pristine quality of the Beaumont Basin
water supply by reducing and eliminating saline discharges to the Beaumont Basin.
C. The City Council has been informed and advised that self -generating water
softening appliances individually generate and discharge salt to the Beaumont Sewer and
Recycled Water System which salt cannot be removed from the drinking water supply by
traditional water treatment and disposal methods. The City Council has been further advised that
new development in the City could create a proliferation of such appliances, thereby impairing
the quality of the drinking water supply and undermining the City's ability to comply with the
Regional Board's Wastewater Discharge requirements for its wastewater treatment plant.
Section 8.46.040 Prohibition
No person or business shall install or in any manner assist in the installation of a self -
regenerating water softening appliance that discharges into the community sewer system owned
and operated by the City or that discharges into an individual or community sewer system in the
City that is tributary to the sewer system owned and operated by the City or to the Beaumont
Groundwater Basin.
Section 8.46.050 Violation
A violation of this Ordinance is a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed
$1,000.00 or imprisonment not to exceed 30 days, or both.
Section 8.46.060 Enforcement
The City Manager and Building Code Enforcement Division of the Department of
Building and Safety shall administer, implement and enforce the provisions of this Ordinance.
Any powers granted to or duties imposed upon the City Manager may be delegated to persons
acting in the beneficial interest of or in the employ of the City.
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Section 8.46.070 Severability
If any provision of this ordinance or the applicability thereof to any person or
circumstances is held invalid, that invalidity shall not affect other provisions or applications of
this ordinance which can be given effect without the invalid portion or application, and to that
end the provisions of this ordinance are severable.
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